In 1355, Zhu Yuanzhang was participating in the rebel army's eastern expedition to the west, when the commander of the rebel army, Guo Zixing, died of illness, originally he let his son take his place, but at this time Zhu Yuanzhang became more and more prestigious with his own talent and courage, and after the death of Guo Zixing's son, Zhu Yuanzhang finally took over the position of commander of the rebel army. Under the leadership of Zhu Yuanzhang, the rebel army attacked the city and plundered the land and soon reached the rich Jiangnan region.
Zhu Yuanzhang was thirsty for talents, so after arriving in Zhejiang, he wanted to visit and recruit local literati and celebrities, so he wrote a notice to recruit talents, but because the content of the notice was too profound, ordinary people could not understand it at all, at this time, there was a beautiful woman who saw the notice and translated the esoteric text to everyone, and it turned out that she was Su Tanmei, the first talented woman in Jiangnan.
Zhu Yuanzhang's adopted sons Zhu Wenzheng and Hu Deji were patrolling the city, seeing Su Tanmei in front of the notice, so they took her back to the tent, because they wanted to please Zhu Yuanzhang, so the two did not hurt Su Tanmei but sacrificed her, Zhu Yuanzhang saw the beautiful Su Tanmei naturally embarrassed himself, so he left Su Tanmei, but after spending a night together, he killed Su Tanmei.
Originally, in order to win the hearts and minds of the people, Zhu Yuanzhang deliberately ordered everyone not to disturb the people, let alone harm the interests of the people, but Hu Deji often robbed the people's daughters and caused a very bad impact, Zhu Yuanzhang knew about it and immediately arrested Hu Deji and imprisoned him, but Hu Deji said that Zhu Yuanzhang also had an affair with Su Tanmei, so he did not have anything to do, Zhu Yuanzhang had no choice but to execute Su Tanmei, but then hu Deji was on the spot to correct the law, he felt ashamed of Su Tanmei, so he later set up a monument in front of Su Tanmei's grave.